The Road to El Toboso
In our previous podcasts Linda and I have talked much about the split between science and religion. Perhaps nothing divides science from religion more than the Christian belief in the supernatural. The scientific method is bound by temporal law. Without accurate predictability confirmed by repetition, science is nothing. Science flounders when it wanders into the supernatural and that is exactly where theoretical science is taking us. Theoretical science has become a religion presenting theory as fact and opinion as truth. They assume that every inference is valid because some credentialed scientist backed up with high position and scholarly degrees said it. Their false theories are turning into laws, thus violating the first amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”
The liberals, ignoring practical science, use the word science as a Billy club to bully us into submission to their progressive policies. We see it with Covid, we see it with shutting down the oil pipelines, we see it with the new green deal, we see it with global warming and electric cars, we see it with their strange ideas of gender. Personally I think that if our nation spent more time worrying about hell fire than global warming, we would make more progress in saving our planet. Scientific facts are ignored as theories take a life of their own, burying truth. There can never be a conflict between true science and truth religion. Truth is the only security. Theoretical science is somewhat like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the road to El Toboso. I love the following lines from Man of La Mancha, a musical based on Cervantes’s classic satire, Don Quixote.
Well, Sancho, likest thou adventuring?
It's marvelous, Your Grace, but it is peculiar.
This great road to glory...
looks exactly like the road to El Toboso...
where you can buy chickens cheap.
I suppose that in each of us is the realism of the gullible Sancho and the idealism of the mad Don Quixote. We all fight windmills of one sort or another. However, our journey is far more dangerous than those in Cervantes’s romantic imagination. The invisible or spiritual world is very real and has a strong influence on our world. The more we take the Holy Scriptures literally the closer we will come to the truth. As Paul said,
“12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6: 12)
He also said,
“37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:37-39)
Our battle against the spirits of darkness began when we were immortals in heaven, spirits looking directly at spirits, and it continues against the same foes, though now invisible, on earth where we are mortals. We are cautioned by Paul to
“Take upon you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (Ephesians 6:13)
The armor of God is not the traditional weapons of war for the war we fight is against visible and invisible foes.
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